Ellezelles

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Municipality in French Community, Belgium

Ellezelles Elzîle (Picard) Elzele (Dutch)
Municipality

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Location of Ellezelles
Ellezelles Location in Belgium The municipality in Ath arrondissement in the province of Hainaut
Coordinates: 50°44′N 03°41′E / 50.733°N 3.683°E / 50.733; 3.683
Country	Belgium
Community	French Community
Region	Wallonia
Province	Hainaut
Arrondissement	Ath
Government
• Governing party/ies	Liste du Bourgmestre (LB) - Ecolo
Area
• Total	45.11 km² (17.42 sq mi)
Population (2018-01-01)^[1]
• Total	6,001
• Density	130/km² (340/sq mi)
Postal codes	7890
NIS code	51017
Area codes	068
Website	www.ellezelles.be

Ellezelles (French pronunciation: [ɛlzɛl] ^ⓘ; Dutch: Elzele; Picard: Elzîle; Walloon: Elziele) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

It consists of the following districts: Ellezelles, Lahamaide, and Wodecq. Bordering Flanders, the town is home to a minority of Dutch-speakers.

The village archives contain a document "attesting" to the birth of Hercule Poirot on 1 April 1850.^[2]

Notable people

Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (1522 in La Hamaide near Ellezelles – executed in 1568) a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War.^[3]
Richard Ely (born 1974 in Ellezelles) a Belgian writer, journalist and ethnobotanist.

References

^ "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
^ "Hercule Poirot". Ellezelles.be. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
^ Edmundson, George (1911). "Egmont, Lamoral, Count of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). pp. 18–19.